Category: Startups
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Featured Startup: Blocklight
(1) Describe your startup.Blocklight is a bootstrapped company founded in March 2018 headquartered in Chicago working out of tech incubator 1871 with team members in Chicago, San Fran, and the Tampa Bay Area. We operate in the e-commerce space providing business intelligence to online sellers with monthly revenues between $500-$25,000. At our core, we’re a…
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Featured Startup: Founders Embassy
(1) Who are you and what do you do? Anastasia Crew and Andee Gardiner, Co-Founders of Founders Embassy – the world’s first equity-free accelerator designed exclusively to induct international and immigrant entrepreneurs into the Silicon Valley ecosystem. (2) In two sentences or less, describe how you participate in the startup ecosystem. Unlike typical accelerators and…
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Featured Startup: NameCoach
(1) Describe your startup. Names are central to our unique identities, and NameCoach software helps people to say names correctly and instantly make others feel more recognized and familiar. Praveen built NameCoach’s first product to enable school faculty and staff to access audio recordings of student names (e.g., on class rosters, at graduation), making…
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Featured Startup: LongPlay
(1) Describe your startup. LongPlay is an app for corporate innovation managers, looking for startups and new technologies. Everyone is pitching you on everything, but LongPlay learns from your actions and puts the most relevant early-stage startups in front of you. Our goal is to give you the unexpected, the edge in your field…
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Featured Startup: GOFINDXR
(1) Describe your startup. Gofind XR is a decentralized protocol for building and monetizing applications for the XR (Extended Reality) and Spatial Internet. We are building the tools and frameworks for developers and enterprises to develop and monetize applications for the physical spatial world around us. We are also launching a Token Sales for funding…
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Featured Startup: Unbank Ventures
(1) Describe your startup.We are a FinTech Incubator program. I think of us as a small business that gets to work with startups. We recruit FinTech founders, put them through our process, introduce them to corporate partners/customers and help them fundraise. (2) What inspired the creation of the startup?I have always had a passion for…
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Featured Startup: Tooso
(Interview with CEO and Founder Ciro Greco) (1) Describe your startup.Tooso is a knowledge graph platform for natural language interfaces as a service. Users are getting used to great search and conversational experiences thanks to big tech companies like Amazon and Google who are building compelling natural language applications like Alexa or Google assistant. But the…
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Featured Startup: Borsetta
(1) Describe your startup. Borsetta provides the most trusted, secure, transparent titled luxury assets in the world. We’ve developed the first, patented Nano-Technology providing digital, tamper-proof titles on the blockchain securing the value and authenticity of your luxury jewelry assets. Our revolutionary blockchain technology is designed specifically to solve the problems of the luxury jewelry industry. …
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Featured Startup: cerebian
(1) Describe your startup.Cerebian is building a Brain OS; a full-stack neural interface that expands the way humans interact with each other and the world. (2) What inspired the creation of the startup?Technology is the tool we use to empower our lives. Smartphones make us smarter by virtue of having them. When you look at…
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Featured Startup: Spectra Plasmonics
(1) Describe your startup.Spectra Plasmonics makes innovative chemical detection technology that provides lab grade results in the palm of your hand. (2) What inspired the creation of the startup?We came together at our university’s startup incubation program, where entrepreneurial students come together, form teams, and start a company. Our team was interested in working on big problems. Marijuana…